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VALIDATE Events

From online seminars and training sessions to in-person workshops, Annual Meetings and major public lectures, VALIDATE has delivered more than 70 events worldwide. Each event is designed to support researchers at every stage of their careers, encourage international collaboration and advance the development of vaccines against tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases, leishmaniasis and melioidosis.

Our programme includes Annual Meetings, workshops, seminars, public talks and events for young people through VALIDATE for Schools. We also share details of relevant external events that may be of interest to our members.

If you have an event that you would like us to promote to the VALIDATE community, please email validate@ndm.ox.ac.uk.

Upcoming VALIDATE Events

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Past VALIDATE Events

VALIDATE One Health Workshop

VALIDATE Workshop: One Health in TB and Leishmaniasis

04 September 2023 to 06 September 2023
The workshop brought together 34 researchers from 16 countries to explore One Health in tuberculosis and leishmaniasis.
Flow Cytometry

VALIDATE Workshop: Fundamentals of Flow Cytometry 2023

09 August 2023 to 10 August 2023
Flow Cytometry is a technology where physical and chemical measurements are made on particles as they flow one by one through a flow chamber. This course was aimed at those new to cytometry and those who wished to consolidate their knowledge.
English

VALIDATE Workshop - Resources & Strategies for Improving English

26 July 2023
The University of Oxford Language Centre provided VALIDATE members with practical advice and introduced them to valuable resources for improving their written and spoken English in research settings.
SGUL Seminar

VALIDATE Seminar - Spore-FP1 mucosal vaccine candidate for TB

04 July 2023
Two talks from members at St George's, University London discusses the challenges of reconciling outcomes from different animal models in testing the Spore-FP1 mucosal vaccine candidate for TB.
NIID seminar

VALIDATE Seminar: Development of recombinant BCG Vaccine for tuberculosis utilizing Major Membrane Protein-II (MMP-II) antigen

29 June 2023
Dr Tsukamoto discussed her work identifying an immunogenic Major Membrane Protein-II (MMP-II) antigen from Mycobacterium leprae, which led to the development of a new recombinant BCG vaccine.
5th Annual Meeting

VALIDATE 5th Annual Meeting

07 March 2023 to 08 March 2023
Our 5th Annual meeting included talks from world-leading scientists, updates from VALIDATE funded projects on their cutting-edge research, and gave members the chance to meet peers from across the globe.
ecr workshop showcasing your science

VALIDATE ECR Workshop: Showcasing Your Science

06 March 2023
VALIDATE has once again asked First Create The Media to provide our members with an in-person, full-day interactive workshop that will help build skills and confidence to talk about your research to the audiences that matter.
One Health and a retrospective study of laboratory - based melioidosis surveillance in Songkhla and Phatthalung Provinces of southern Thailand

Watch Now - VALIDATE Seminar: One Health and a retrospective study of laboratory - based melioidosis surveillance in Songkhla and Phatthalung Provinces of southern Thailand, 2014 - 2020

22 February 2023
In this seminar, Dr Apichai Tuanyok discussed his team's "One Health" approach and multidisciplinary research to investigate the epidemiology of melioidosis in southern Thailand.
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Watch Now - VALIDATE Seminar: A Double Bill with Institut Pasteur de Tunis

25 January 2023
One Seminar about two pathogens from two great researcher fronm Institut Pasteur de Tunis - Dhafer Laouini & Makram Essafi
Targeting Immunometabolism in Host Defence Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

VALIDATE Winer Seminar: Targeting Immunometabolism in Host Defence Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

14 December 2022
In this seminar, Dr Luciana Balboa discussed how her team focused on unraveling the immunometabolic pathways that regulates leucocytes' functions and their impact on the control of TB.
NIH101

VALIDATE Workshop - NIH101: A Guide to Applying for National Institutes of Health Funding

30 November 2022
In this workshop, Dr Katrin Eichelberg provided advice on finding NIH funding opportunities and shared tips on putting together a NIH grant application
VALIDATE Winter Seminar - Alfredo G Torres

VALIDATE Winter Seminar: A flexible and efficient platform to develop a nanovaccine against Burkholderia pseudomallei

16 November 2022
In this talk, Prof Alfredo G Torres discussed his Lab's latest research on nanovaccine for Burkholderia pseudomallei.
Storytelling for Scientists

Storytelling for Scientists Workshop

06 July 2022
VALIDATE members delved into the techniques of storytelling to discover how applying the tools of classic stories can help you create a compelling pitch for your start up and how it can make a difference.
A Vaccine for Leprosy?

A Vaccine for Leprosy?

28 June 2022
Dr Khushboo Borah Slater and Dr Chyntia Carolina Díaz Acosta discussed the prospects for a vaccine for Leprosy, the disease caused by Mycobacteria Leprae of which there are still over 200,000 new cases of diagnosed every year.
ecr summer showcase

ECR Summer Showcase

22 June 2022
VALIDATE Associates gave a 15-minute presentation about their research followed by a Q&A. We hope this will be an excellent opportunity for the presenters to showcase their science to their fellow members worldwide.
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A Vaccine for Melioidosis?

18 May 2022
Prof Mukhopadhyay and Dr Dastidar discussed the prospects for a vaccine for Melioidosis, the disease caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, which is found across tropical and semi-tropical regions worldwide causes an estimated 89,000 deaths.
a vaccine for leishmaniasis watch now

A Vaccine for Leishmaniasis? - Watch now!

06 April 2022
Prof Mitali Chatterjee and Dr Mohamed Osman provided an overview and update on the current state of research into vaccines for leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis refers to a diverse group of diseases, all caused by single-celled parasites called Leishmania.
Writing Research Grant Proposals - Watch Now

VALIDATE Workshop: Writing Research Grant Proposals

02 March 2022
Prof Rajko Reljic provided attendees with a perspective on how to identify the most appropriate funding opportunities and write successful proposals to support their research.
Growing your funding

VALIDATE ECR Workshop Series 2021: Grant Writing

24 February 2022
This workshop aimed to help VALIDATE Early Career Researchers widen and improve non-technical skills necessary to progress their careers.
Tokyo Seminar

Vaccine Development and Sero-diagnosis of Leprosy - Watch Now

30 November 2021
Dr Yumi Maeda of the Leprosy Research Center National Tokyo Institute of Infectious Diseases discussed how her Team constructed a recombinant BCG that secretes Major Membrane Protein-II of M. leprae.
Project Management

Project Grant Management

17 July 2021
Sam, who is an experienced research project manager, takes you through her tips to plan and run a successful research project and to manage your research grants - the main point being to keep a defined project running efficiently.
Immunotec Seminar

VALIDATE Industry Seminar - Watch Now

15 July 2021
Dr Yupei Xiao discussed the Immunology of latent TB infection (LTBI) and active TB disease, the granuloma formation and T cell medicated immunity and the immunology behind T cell-mediated immunity tests.
TB and the use of BCG in Animals

TB and the use of BCG in Animals: Does it matter to people? - Watch Now

09 June 2021
In this talk, Prof Michele Miller and Prof Glyn Hewinson explored why effective vaccine programmes for animals are essential to the health and wellbeing of humans and the challenges that we still face in making such programmes a reality.
Michelle and Wynand

BCG100 for Schools - Pathways to becoming wildlife researchers - Watch Now

11 May 2021
Michele Miller and Wynand Goosen met school students online to discuss their very different career paths that led them to becoming researchers studying TB vaccines for African wildlife